Note: I crossposted this for Eliezer, after asking him for permission, because I thought it was a good essay. It was originally written for Twitter, so is not centrally aimed at a LW audience, but I still think it’s a good essay ot have on the site.
+$BIGNUM for this. It’s frustrating when interesting parts of the LW-sphere conversation happen on closed services. Some of us (e.g. and sometimes-feels-like-i.e. me) neither have nor want a twitter account, and twitter has made it increasingly difficult to follow references to it without one.
I have the same complaint about facebook, though it’s not the culprit this time. Every so often I’ll run into a post that depends on a reference that is facebook-account-walled.
How are those staying alive in the first place? I had previously used Nitter for keeping up with some of Eliezer’s posts without being logged in, but my understanding was that the workaround they were using to obtain the necessary API keys was closed off several months ago, and indeed the instances I used stopped working for that purpose. Have the linked instances found some alternative method?
From what I understand, they are using a forked version of Nitter which uses fully registered accounts rather than temporary anonymous access tokens, and sourcing those accounts from various shady websites that sell them in bulk.
I gave in and made an account on the X-parrot but I only use it to read things I’m linked to in other sources. (I have been pseudo-ideologically opposed to participating on that service since it first started.)
Thanks for crossposting this. I also figured it might be suitable for LW. Two formatting issues due to crossposting from Twitter: the double spaces occasionally turn into single spaces at the beginning of a line; and the essay would benefit a lot from headings and a TOC.
Note: I crossposted this for Eliezer, after asking him for permission, because I thought it was a good essay. It was originally written for Twitter, so is not centrally aimed at a LW audience, but I still think it’s a good essay ot have on the site.
+$BIGNUM for this. It’s frustrating when interesting parts of the LW-sphere conversation happen on closed services. Some of us (e.g. and sometimes-feels-like-i.e. me) neither have nor want a twitter account, and twitter has made it increasingly difficult to follow references to it without one.
I have the same complaint about facebook, though it’s not the culprit this time. Every so often I’ll run into a post that depends on a reference that is facebook-account-walled.
Please be aware of https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/ https://nitter.privacydev.net/ESYudkowsky/ https://nitter.poast.org/ESYudkowsky/
How are those staying alive in the first place? I had previously used Nitter for keeping up with some of Eliezer’s posts without being logged in, but my understanding was that the workaround they were using to obtain the necessary API keys was closed off several months ago, and indeed the instances I used stopped working for that purpose. Have the linked instances found some alternative method?
From what I understand, they are using a forked version of Nitter which uses fully registered accounts rather than temporary anonymous access tokens, and sourcing those accounts from various shady websites that sell them in bulk.
I wasn’t aware of these options, thank you.
I gave in and made an account on the X-parrot but I only use it to read things I’m linked to in other sources. (I have been pseudo-ideologically opposed to participating on that service since it first started.)
Thanks for crossposting this. I also figured it might be suitable for LW. Two formatting issues due to crossposting from Twitter: the double spaces occasionally turn into single spaces at the beginning of a line; and the essay would benefit a lot from headings and a TOC.